December 28, 2022 | 8:53am
Ryan Seacrest dependable his enactment for CNN’s determination to bounds Andy Cohen’s drinking connected New Year’s Eve — 1 twelvemonth aft the Bravo prima referred to Seacrest’s performers arsenic “a radical of losers.”
“I don’t advocator drinking erstwhile 1 is connected the air,” the longtime big of ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” told Entertainment Weekly Monday.
“I don’t cognize however that started arsenic a tradition, but it’s astir apt a bully thought [to standard back], CNN.”
Each year, Cohen and his champion person Anderson Cooper squad up and imbibe passim the evening’s celebrations, which yet instrumentality a hilarious crook erstwhile Cohen gets drunk capable to insult high-ranking officials specified arsenic erstwhile Mayor Bill de Blasio.
“There’s immoderate beauteous respectable radical oregon astatine slightest one, right?” Seacrest, 48, joked astir the hosts of CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live.”
“I deliberation there’s a superior writer and past a person of excavation who has a batch of fun, but it’s astir apt a bully idea.”
Seacrest blamed Cohen’s insults past year, of which helium was a victim, connected the alcohol.
“[I don’t] deliberation they would accidental what they said astir our performers if they weren’t drinking,” helium explained.
When Cohen, 54, emerged from what indispensable person been a terrible hangover astatine the apical of 2022, he issued a mea culpa to Seacrest and the ABC staff.
“The lone happening that I regret saying, the lone happening is that I slammed the ABC broadcast, and I truly like Ryan Seacrest, and he’s a large guy,” Cohen said of Seacrest’s production.
“And I truly regret saying that, and I was conscionable anserine and drunk and feeling it.”
He added, “I conscionable kept talking, and I shouldn’t have, and I felt atrocious astir that. So that is the lone happening [I regret]. It’s the lone thing.”